(2) However, such royalties may also be taxed in the Contract-
ing State in which they arise and according to the laws of that
State, but if the beneficial owner of the royalties is a resident of
the other Contracting State, the tax so charged shall not exceed
10 per cent of the gross amount of the royalties.
(3) The term “royalties” as used in this Article means
payments of any kind received as a consideration for the use of,
or the right to use, any copyright of literary, artistic or scientific
work (including cinematograph films and films, tapes or discs for
radio or television broadcasting), any patent, trade mark, design
or model, plan, secret formula or process, or for information con-
cerning industrial, commercial or scientific experience.
(4) The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply if the
beneficial owner of the royalties, being a resident of a Contract-
ing State, carries on business in the other Contracting State in
which the royalties arise through a permanent establishment
situated therein and the right or property in respect of which the
royalties are paid is effectively connected with such permanent
establishment. In such case, the provisions of Article 7 shall
apply.
(5) Royalties shall be deemed to arise in a Contracting State
when the payer is a resident of that State. Where, however, the
person paying the royalties, whether he is a resident of a Con-
tracting State or not, has in a Contracting State a permanent
establishment with which the liability to pay the royalties was
incurred, and such royalties are borne by such permanent estab-
lishment, then such royalties shall be deemed to arise in the
State in which the permanent establishment is situated.
(6) Where, by reason of a special relationship between the
payer and the beneficial owner or between both of them and
some other person, the amount of the royalties, having regard to
the use, right or information for which they are paid, exceeds the
amount which would have been agreed upon by the payer and
the beneficial owner in the absence of such relationship, the pro-
visions of this Article shall apply only to the last-mentioned
amount. In such case, the excess part of the payments shall
remain taxable according to the laws of each Contracting State,
due regard being had to the other provisions of this Agreement.
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de-mauritius-2012-base | BGBl. 2012 II S. 1050 | Signed: 2011-10-07 | Gazette publication: 2012-10-09
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The signing clause identifies German and English as equally authentic; both are supplied as separate machine transcriptions. No additional authentic language is identified in that clause. Unreviewed coordinate-based machine transcription of this original source edition only. Printed line breaks, hyphens and uncertain token spacing are retained, not silently corrected. Treaty preamble, closing formula, protocol and shared signatures are separate retained assets, not part of the last article. Full supplements: /review/de-mauritius-2012-base/. PDF page links identify pages, not verified paragraph correspondence. Signed 2011-10-07; consent law 2012-10-02; Gazette publication 2012-10-09; treaty entry into force 2012-12-07 (retained official-article audit evidence); general tax application from 2013-01-01 (BMF 2026 roster, not every tax-specific transition). Consent-law commencement 2012-10-10 is NOT treaty entry into force. Encoding-recovery method: only the source font code00 /space Unicode mapping U+0007 to U+0020 changed in a separately hashed derivative. CFF blank glyph, 278-unit advance, unchanged page content streams and 23/23 identical source/derivative page renders for this edition evidence this mapping. Word regrouping is logged; every nonspace character is conserved in sequence within its physical source line. No model-generated treaty wording and no OCR.
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Protocols and later instruments
The integral protocol signed 7 October 2011 is retained separately. A LATER AMENDING PROTOCOL signed 29 October 2021 is NOT included or consolidated here. The 2026 roster records general application from 1 January 2023 and cites the entry notice BGBl. 2023 II No.50; the official article still displays ./. for protocol entry into force. Exact amendment entry date and tax-specific effect remain UNRESOLVED pending examination of that notice. Do not treat this base edition as current consolidated law. MLI and any other later changes are not exhaustively verified. Source-triage warnings: Bounded agent triage, no qualified wording/alignment/legal review. No exhaustive verification of all later 2026 developments. Matching digest proves retained source identity, not legal force. Known related/later instruments NOT included in this source (agent triage, not exhaustive): amending-protocol; signature date: 2021-10-29; general application from: 2023-01-01; limit: Exact tax-specific application remains for protocol review.
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